Dr. Richard Horton made a statement Thursday
during Grand Rounds at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, which he
visited earlier in the week.

Horton reportedly said during his statement
that he “deeply, deeply regrets” publishing the letter to the people of
Gaza in The Lancet during this summer’s conflict in Gaza between Israel
and Hamas. Several dozen physicians from the West signed the letter,
which also accused Israel of “cruel” and “vicious war crimes.”
Physicians, researchers and Israeli officials decried the letter.

...

But during his statement at Rambam on
Thursday, Horton reportedly condemned the contributors to The Lancet who
promote explicitly anti-Semitic materials, expressed a new
understanding of Israeli realities including the complexities of the
Arab-Israel conflict, and pledged a new relationship with Israel.

He also invited Israelis to “tell the Israeli health story” in The Lancet, in parallel to the Palestinians’.

'Not good enough' says NGO Monitor, which last month outed two of the signers as supporters of American racist David Duke.

Following Horton’s remarks, NGO Monitor, a
Jerusalem-based research institute which monitors non-governmental
organizations, said in a statement that it is “urgent that the July 2014
“An Open Letter for the People of Gaza” be removed from The Lancet’s
website and a formal retraction and apology be published prominently,
both on the website and the next hard copy issue.”

NGO Monitor also called on The Lancet to
“undertake positive initiatives to accurately inform the medical
community of Israel’s contributions to medicine, as well as the close
cooperation that takes place between different sectors of the
population.”

They could start by publicizing that Mrs. Abu Bluff has had surgery in Israel....

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